I think twitter.com could provide a useful way for at least a few climate realists to quickly exchange information.
Right now, a lot of us are informally sharing information by reading each other's blog posts (maybe via RSS), emailing links around, etc. For some of us, I think adding twitter.com communication into the mix would be an improvement.
On Twitter, you can send out publically-readable "Tweets" which are typically short (140 characters or less) bits of text and maybe a clickable link too.
You can go to search.twitter.com and do a real-time search for text strings. Some people are using "hash tags" to allow people with common interests to find each other's Tweets.
As an example, I've done a few example Tweets including hash tag '#agw'; a search for that hash tag is here. I plan to use and watch that hash tag for a while to see what happens...
If we eventually had a few bloggers monitoring the '#agw' hash tag search above, any Tweets including hash tag "#agw" could soon result in related blog posts, etc. Any climate realist out there could easily contribute to the online discussion by issuing a Tweet with #agw when finding interesting discussion in a comment section, when finding a relevant news article or blog post, when discovering related TV/radio shows or debates, etc etc.
If you've just written a brilliant paper/blog post/comment/etc you could just send out a #agw tweet so that many more people might find out about it.
Maybe this hash tag or another one could also be used for quick communication for attendees (and outside people) relating to next March's Heartland conference? (By the way, I plan to be there).
You can quickly sign up for a free Twitter account here. You don't have to supply personal data such as your real name, address, etc.
Some background information: 5 Ways to Use Twitter for Good - Stepcase Lifehack
Right now, a lot of us are informally sharing information by reading each other's blog posts (maybe via RSS), emailing links around, etc. For some of us, I think adding twitter.com communication into the mix would be an improvement.
On Twitter, you can send out publically-readable "Tweets" which are typically short (140 characters or less) bits of text and maybe a clickable link too.
You can go to search.twitter.com and do a real-time search for text strings. Some people are using "hash tags" to allow people with common interests to find each other's Tweets.
As an example, I've done a few example Tweets including hash tag '#agw'; a search for that hash tag is here. I plan to use and watch that hash tag for a while to see what happens...
If we eventually had a few bloggers monitoring the '#agw' hash tag search above, any Tweets including hash tag "#agw" could soon result in related blog posts, etc. Any climate realist out there could easily contribute to the online discussion by issuing a Tweet with #agw when finding interesting discussion in a comment section, when finding a relevant news article or blog post, when discovering related TV/radio shows or debates, etc etc.
If you've just written a brilliant paper/blog post/comment/etc you could just send out a #agw tweet so that many more people might find out about it.
Maybe this hash tag or another one could also be used for quick communication for attendees (and outside people) relating to next March's Heartland conference? (By the way, I plan to be there).
You can quickly sign up for a free Twitter account here. You don't have to supply personal data such as your real name, address, etc.
Some background information: 5 Ways to Use Twitter for Good - Stepcase Lifehack
Micro-Attention-Sharing- Lots of us use Twitter to direct folks to blog posts we’ve written, news we find needs sharing, or entertaining things we’ve found on the web (Twitter has a built in function to use tinyurl.com to shrink URLs to keep it under 140 characters). It’s *like* using del.icio.us to share, but it’s instant, and you wouldn’t drop 100 links on someone in Twitter in a given day.
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